VENKATA GURUTEJA VASAGIRI
Redmond
Summary
Technical Program Manager with 9+ years of experience leading customer-facing cloud, data, and AI initiatives from scenario definition through delivery. Strong record of partnering with engineering, business, and executive stakeholders to translate ambiguous problems into clear roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes. Hands-on background across Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Databricks, SQL, PySpark, MCP in Copilot Studio, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Data Operations Engineer
MAQ Software
Redmond
03.2021 - Current
- Partner with customers, engineers, designers, and business stakeholders to define technical scenarios, gather requirements, and translate them into prioritized user stories and actionable delivery plans.
- Lead cross-functional program planning across interdependent workstreams, aligning milestones, dependencies, risks, and governance rhythms for complex cloud and data initiatives.
- Led a team in designing reusable Microsoft Fabric platform frameworks for ingestion, orchestration, validation, and CI/CD, standardizing delivery and improving scalability across an evolving platform.
- Led development of MCP server-based automation for Azure DevOps and status reporting, automating pull request feedback for AI readiness and best-practices compliance, and generating daily updates using signals from Microsoft Teams meetings, Outlook emails, pull requests, and release pipelines.
- Facilitated customer workshops, architecture reviews, and live demos to evaluate business pain points and recommend actionable solution strategies.
- Establish success criteria, validate use cases, and use feedback and performance metrics to guide release decisions and continuous improvement.
- Stay current with emerging cloud and AI advancements through events including FabCon and SQLCon conferences, where I engage customers, understand business challenges, and help shape practical solution roadmaps.
- Partnered with customer facing high Power BI autoscale costs by conducting analysis, leading deep-dive sessions with DevOps team, identifying architectural gaps, and recommending cost-optimization actions.
- Secured executive buy-in for long-term Fabric modernization strategy using Direct Lake models and RTI dashboards in F512 capacity, balancing near-term remediation with future scalability.
- Recovered a high-visibility multi-team plan by re-baselining schedules and increasing review cadence from weekly to daily for two weeks, then bi-weekly for one month, accelerating blocker resolution and delivery alignment.
Software Engineer
MAQ Software
Hyderabad
01.2017 - 03.2021
- Defined architecture and engineering best practices, improving performance, governance, security, and maintainability.
- Mentored developers on data modeling and query optimization, enhancing Power BI performance and team capabilities.
- Coordinated cross-team efforts to manage dependencies and unblock issues, ensuring predictable delivery timelines.
- Designed and delivered scalable Power BI and SQL reporting solutions aligned with business goals and customer requirements.
Education
Master of Technology - Computer Science
National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
KurukshetraBachelor of Technology - Computer Science
G. Pulla Reddy Engineering College
KurnoolSkills
- Agile Project Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Product Ownership
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Roadmap & Release Planning
- Risk Management
- Microsoft Fabric
- Azure DevOps
- Databricks
- SQL
- PySpark
- MCP/AI Automation
Certification
- DP-700
- DP-600
- PL-400
Microsoft Transcript
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/users/vasagirigurutejamaqsoftware5153/transcript/d8yw0fwp6q922yq
Timeline
Software Data Operations Engineer
MAQ Software
03.2021 - Current
Software Engineer
MAQ Software
01.2017 - 03.2021
Master of Technology - Computer Science
National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
G. Pulla Reddy Engineering College